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10/26/2012

Welcome to the Howloween Blog Hop! Thanks to Drea for hosting it and to you for stopping by!

As anyone who knows me knows, I LOVE Halloween. I love the sights, the smells of Fall, the crunch of leaves on the ground, and I love the idea that our world may contain so much more than what meets the eye. Several of my family members have had ghostly experiences and I've had a few things happen to me that were hard to explain. I think it's a fascinating subject, and whether or not you believe, this time of year makes many of us more susceptible to things that go bump in the night!

10/23/2012

HUGE thanks to Close Encounters with the Night Kind and Natasha Blackthorne for holding this hop! Since I LOVE Halloween - and being wicked - I'm going to share a quick excerpt with you from my Halloween-themed erotic short, BAD KITTY, which you can get a chance at winning!

Just leave a comment answering THIS question: WILL YOU BE NAUGHTY OR NICE THIS HALLOWEEN? with your email address AND sign up to be a follower of the blog!

TWO winners will win a copy of the ebook! (Already read Bad Kitty? No worries - choose another of my ebooks!)

BAD KITTY NAUGHTY EXCERPT:

Nikki lifted her eyes to Patrick’s
chiseled face as he tossed aside the devil costume. Underneath he wore boxers
and a T-shirt, but he removed those quickly as well. When he was naked, save
for the glinting silver disk medallion on leather cord around his neck, he
cocked an eyebrow. “Am I to be your submissive tonight?”

“You’re to be whatever I command you
to be.”

Enjoying her new role way too much,
she lashed his sides with her tail while she did a full circle around his body.
His cock wasn’t the only tight and firm part of him. The guy had one hell of a
physique. Honed from hours of hard, sweaty work, no doubt, and not on a
treadmill. Patrick built and fixed things in the hot sun day in and day out.
Which also accounted for the deep bronze of his skin in the flickering lights
from her Halloween décor. She’d saved her biggest jack-o-lantern for this room
because she wanted—needed—to see.

And now she needed to take him.

“Lay down on the bed,” she said,
stopping in front of him. “And stroke your cock.”

For a moment he stared at her, his
hooded gaze intent. “You do understand that if I let you get things started,
you won’t be finishing them.”

She crossed her arms over her chest
and arched an eyebrow. “Who has the whip?”

“Your whip with a poufy thing on the
end?” His scoff nearly made her grin. “Who has the serious weight and strength
advantage?”

Without blinking, she stepped
forward and shoved him backward on to the bed. That she’d caught him off-guard
explained why he hadn’t been able to brace, but she didn’t care. All that
mattered was that he was on his back and at her mercy.

“Now,” she purred, pulling her tail
up between her legs. That poufy thing
managed to make him twitch as she swished it over his sac. “I believe your hand
should be right about here.” She flicked the head of his cock and noted his
groan with a satisfied smile. “Or would you rather accept my punishment?”

10/19/2012

Welcome to the Alpha Male Blog Hop! Thanks as always to the incredible Carrie Ann Ryan for her amazing hops!

If you're saying...hey, wait, Cari still needs to announce other prizes or send me something I won in a prior giveaway, you're right! I'm working on a slew of deadlines right now (more books, yay!) and as soon as I can take a breather, I'll get those announcements up and prizes delivered. I always get them out eventually!

Now for the main event...

What is your favorite thing about Alpha Heroes? Well, we authors are ready to share our favorite Alpha Males, our favorite things about them, and everything sexy and heated about those Alpha Males you can think of. *wink* Starting on October 19th and ending on Oct 22nd, over 200 Authors and Bloggers will share their favorite things about those sexy men we know and love.

And while we do that, we are EACH doing a giveaway. Yep. There will be over 200 giveaways on each blog hosted by that Author or Blogger.

But that's not all....

We have THREE grand prizes. You as a reader can go to EACH blog and comment with your email address and be entered to win. Yep, you can enter over 200 times!

Now what are those prizes?

1st Grand Prize: A Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet

2nd Grand Prize: A $130 Amazon or B&N Gift Card

3rd Grand Prize: The following Swag Pack! (US only)

Alpha males...why we love them!

I signed up for this hop because I LOVE alpha males! Why do I love them so much? In this world where too many people never take a stand, an alpha male is prepared to go b@lls to the wall to protect and care for his family and his significant other at any costs. He'll do what he needs to do to ensure their safety and well-being and doesn't care whose feathers he ruffles. That sort of take charge personality is beyond sexy.

And whoa, what's hotter than a man who takes command in the boardroom and the bedroom? Okay, so the boardroom is my personal preference...a man in a suit will ALWAYS rock my world. To that end, I figured I'd tease you all with my inspiration for Cory Santangelo in book 3 of the Love Required series, NO ROMANCE REQUIRED. Can you say HOLY YUM?

NO ROMANCE REQUIRED will be out soon...in the meantime, check out his delicious inspiration, Chris Pine. And if you're curious to learn more about Cory, check out NO FLOWERS REQUIRED, book 2 in the Love Required series about Cory's brother Dillon!

I'm giving away one of my FUTURE releases to two winners! (thanks to one of my favorite readers, Lisa aka Wolphcall, for the great idea)

How does it work?

1) Head to my website: www.cariquinn.com and check out my coming soon list and name a title in the comments you'd like to win.

If you're picked, when that book is released (all will be released within the next year) you'll receive an ebook copy! And if I get ARCs, you'll get a copy BEFORE anyone else! (there may be a substitution in case of delay in release, in which case we'll pick a book you'll enjoy!)

Some books you can choose:

NO ROMANCE REQUIRED (bk 3 in the LOVE REQUIRED series)

TWICE BURNED (bk 1 in the FIREFIGHTERS OF BATTLE CREEK series)

MONEY SHOT (bk 2 in the HOT SHOTS series)

WATCH ME (bk 4 in the Unveiled series)

How do you enter?1) Become a follower of the blog2) Leave a comment (WITH email address and book choice please!) answering this question: You're stuck in an elevator with the alpha male of your dreams.Who is he? (Can be from books, movies, real life or your own fantasy creation!)Good luck everyone and thanks for stopping by! Keep hopping!

10/09/2012

Welcome to the HOT IN HANDCUFFS blog hop! Finally a hop that celebrates kinky fuckery at its finest and thank you to UNDER THE COVERS Book Blog for hosting it!

In honor of the blog hop, I'm posting a short, sexy excerpt of my USA TODAY bestselling Brazen NO FLOWERS REQUIRED from Entangled Publishing. And yes, you can choose this book if you win!WARNING: R-rated excerpt of NO FLOWERS REQUIRED!

Alexa moved whip-fast,
slamming her hands on Dillon’s chest and him against the door before his brain
caught up. The watering can clattered onto the ground. She spared it a brief,
puzzled glance, then fisted her hands in his T-shirt and arched up, her mouth
coming closer—

Fuck it.

He fused his mouth to
hers, and dammit, it was even better than he’d expected. She didn’t yield to him
but struggled a bit, as if she was shocked he’d taken over. That made it even
hotter. He slanted his lips over hers when her startled squeak granted him access
to the warm sweetness inside. Perfect. He took full advantage of her surprise
to explore her with long, slow licks of his tongue.

Maybe his head
couldn’t compute what was happening, but his body sure could. He cupped her ass
and rocked his hips against hers, all too aware of his violent reaction to her
nearness. His dick still hadn’t recovered from their bump-and-grind in her
bathroom and apparently had no trouble asserting its readiness to play.
Recovered now, she didn’t shy away, and instead rubbed against him, her curves
sliding against him in a way that had him groaning and pulling back so hard he thunked
his head on the closed door.

He couldn’t do this.
Oh, God, he had to. She was going wild against him, and he didn’t have any defenses
against his hunger for her. Not when he wanted nothing more than this. Just
this.

“What are we doing?”
he managed as she dragged her lips down his Adam’s apple. Stars danced in his vision
and hell if he knew if they were from the head jolt or from their kiss.

She didn’t answer
him, just skated her hands down his torso and under his shirt. And what hands
they were. She seemed to be touching him everywhere. He clung to her ass as if
she was his only port in the storm, and sure enough, a bolt of lightning
sizzled overhead followed by a crack of thunder. But Alexa never paused. He’d
become her canvas and her fingers were her paintbrush. She sketched every ridge
of muscle, every line of bone. And then the column of his cock, wedged tight
into his jeans. She touched him with confidence and skill, the kind that would
soon have him driving his hands into her hair and pushing her to her knees if
she didn’t stop.

But a woman like her
wasn’t meant for a quick fuck against a door, even if that was what she acted like
she wanted. Even if he longed for her so much that he didn’t care about
anything but stealing this moment and making it theirs. He must be misreading her
signals, though he was pretty adept at picking up sexual cues. Or else he’d
sent some crazy ones of his own.

“Alexa.” Though it
took all his faculties just to get out that one word, she ignored him.

Completely.

She cupped him and
nipped his jaw, her teeth offering a sharp counterpoint to her palm’s soft
touch. His shaft lurched in her hold and she let out a delighted purr.

“Lex,” he tried
again, her name ending in a moan. “You
don’t know who I am.”

What's up for grabs?

Winner's choice of two of my kinky ebooks! (International giveaway)

(Any of my available books except COWBOY LUST)

How do you enter?

1) Become a follower of the blog

2) Leave a comment with email answering this question: You're with the partner of your dreams and money's no object. What wild thing would you do with them? (Sexy or non-sexy, totally up to you!)